The Leyland 0.680 is probably a good example of an engine suited for buses and lorries alike. It went like stink in a Leyland Leopard coach and was highly successful in a Scammell Routeman eight-wheeler tipper. 
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Was the B10M the same 9.6 that Volvo put in the F88?
And many a Bristol RE
Horizontally mounted, but otherwise yes.
I always thought those gearboxes wouldnât engage if the doors were open. I once rang a Leopard in âno driveâ. I was doing a bit of part timing for National travel, day trip to Aysgarth Falls up in the Dales, I couldnât get the box to engage. Darlington sent a wrecker out, the wrecker driver got in the Leopard, shut the door and off it went. Whoops 
at the time I thought some of the names he called me were a bit harsh and very unnecessary.
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I always thought those excusable mistakes we made because thereâs no way we could have known, were the most irritating. Like the day I couldnât undo the wheelnuts on a Morris LD van because no one had told me they were left-hand thread on the nearside!
Yes that was quite a thing back in the day wasnât it? Something to do with preventing them from unscrewing with the movement of the wheel .
It was usual for UK manufacturers to use wheel dishes with conical stud holes and wheel nuts with a suitable chamfer. The nuts always tightened to the front of the vehicle, usually with the aid of a bit of pipe on the end of the wheel brace.
Then the continentals came along with different types of wheel security.
Our one and only continental vehicle was a 1976 DAF six wheel rigid and that had wheel dishes with straight stud holes and the wheel nuts had a washer.
IIRC they were all RH thread had to be tightened to a specific torque setting.
I remember that somehow a UK type wheel dish got fitted as the inner wheel on one of the rear axles of the DAF and after a few days braking caused a severe shudder of the whole vehicle.
Removed all the rear wheels to investigate and the UK wheel dish had almost split in two through the stud holes.
When Leyland introduced the T45 range they had adopted the continental wheel type fittings. Only problem was the wheel nuts on the early ones were to shallow to allow a wheel brace or air gun socket to fit on correctly and Leyland had to replace a whole load of nuts FOC. In our case it was for a eight wheel tipper and a four wheel rigid.
The only interlock I ever encountered was an air plunger that came up under the accelerator pedal, if the back door was open.
I remember one time it was a first time with this volvo, the boat docked made my way to truck started it and it wouldnât move, checked everything, all air pressureâs were good plus traffic was passing my with signs like what the hell are you doing
Putting my hands and fingers everywhere i eventually found this pop out button below the handbrake and pushed it in and away i went totally embarrassed
Hoping everyone just thought i had a problem with air pressure i eventually found out it was called a dead manâs air lock
The Volvo F86 had those, which is probably why our resident F86 hater couldnât get it out of the yard.
Broms brake.
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Ye gods, memories. GOM was on the Stranrar - Larne ferry, 3 axle Foden artic unit, 350 Cummins and Fuller. Docked at Stranrar and GOM gets mounted ready for a steady run home. Fire the Cummins up and the b loody thing wouldnât move.
To cut a long story short, after yet another wrecker call out, the fault was discoveredâŚwait for itâŚthe treddle type footbrake had seized up on the spindle. That WD40 stuff is good. Your man (me) had parked it on the car deck, and the footbrake valve had seized on. I wasnât allowed to forget that for a long time.
Iâve been called a lot of hurtful names in my time. 
But they were happy days. 
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GOM reminded me of the time I delivered kitchen cabinets in Ireland Saturday morning then scooted to Larne to catch the ferry. There was a few wagons ahead of me and I didnât get on but they said donât worry youâll get on the next one, which was the last one till Monday. It was the Stena something i donât recall but old, had what looked like Roman pillars holding the roof up. I started to drive my furniture wagon on when a worker waved his arms and told me to stop. Apparently my wagon was too tall to board the ferry so I found a nice bed & breakfast run by a nice family and had a good weekend there.
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Spotted this on fbâŚ
Odd looking Scania cab, assume it must be a locally built cab, mudguards, screen look oddâŚ
The Scani is in the livery of the Turkish company, ER-SEN, and has a Turkish number plate. They went on to run Mack F700s.
I like that Belgian AEC cab, good corner visibility. 